George Saunders
This week, George Saunders, a wildly inventive writer with an equally colorful background: Saunders worked as a geophysical prospector in Indonesia, a roofer in Chicago, and a doorman in Beverly Hills. Saunders\u2019 short stories are often funny and frequently take place in a slightly futuristic, dystopian America. His novel \u201cLincoln in the Bardo\u201d earned him the prestigious Man Booker Prize. On October 11th, 2023, George Saunders came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to talk with KQED\u2019s Alexis Madrigal.